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was one head in our camp, killed by a Mr. Riley, of Midvale, 
Mont., that of a four-year-old ram, which in the face was 
nearly a pure white, though about the back of the cheeks 
and on tlie neck the color darkened somewhat. This was 
simply an instance of change of color with the season of the 
year. As Mr. Johnson'.s sheep came from a still more north- 
ern and colder country, and may possibly have been killed 
in winter, it may be that its color is simply an instance of 
winter coat. It seems to me that it is much too white for 
this, however, and I leave this nut of Mr. Johnson's for 
some one else to crack. 
Buffalo In the Northwest. 
The same enterprising news gatherer sends a little later a 
clipping from the Edmonton Bulletin of March last, stating 
that the information is authentic, so that he thinks we have 
not yet gotten to the "Last of the Buffalo." The cutting 
reads: 
"Official dispatches from Inspector Jarvis reporting upon 
his patrol as far as he has gone, have been received at police 
headquarters. 
"At the time of writing Inspector Jarvis was at Fort 
Chipewyan, havine: returned there from Fort Resolution, 
Fort Smith and Smith's Landing on Feb. 2-5. 
"Two buffalo bulls and a cow were seen twenty-five miles 
out from Fort Smith on Feb. 21. This makes about 100 of 
these animals seen in that vicinity since last fall." 
No Chance for a Poor Man. 
An injured citizen of Manitoba writes to Premier Green- 
way, by medium of the Winnipeg Free Press, about an indig- 
nity committed upon his haystacks by certain unbridled 
wild deer. He thinks he ought to be paid if the present ef- 
ficient game-laws (a two years' close season on deer) are to 
continue so much in force, and says: "The deer have eat. 
and destroyed me about twelve tons of hay this winter, 
through the snows being so deep and the hunting season be- 
ing closed. 1 would like to know what recompense I am 
entitled to, 1 have informed one of the game guardians and 
he has seen what damage has been done, but said he could 
not do anything bttt said I must inform you about it, for it 
leaves me very short of feed and it cost me quite a bit for 
hired heln and harvesting, for wages were high and the 
season very wet; so I hope you Will consider me entitled to 
some recompense for my loss." 
(The American deer don't eat very much hay. Not if 
your American knows it. Ever prompt to defend his home, 
he loads the old gun up with slugs and repels the invasion. 
Thus our deer will, after a time, molest us no more,) 
The Tolleston Case. 
The case of the Tolleston Club, mentioned at length last 
winter, in which the club wardens were arrested for firing 
upon trespassers, is this week on trial at Crown Point, Ind., 
some fifty witnesses having been examined, with conflicting 
results. No deaths have ensued from the shooting. Ttie 
case will probably be closed next Monday, when prosecutor 
Heard will speak for the State and attorney Foster for the 
club. 
Bitten by a Tarantula. 
Mr. W. W. McQueen, late of Menominee but now of 
Chicago, took a hunting trip to Texas last winter, and came 
nearly losing his life by it. "While out in the country near 
Red water, Tex., he became aware of a prickling, numbing 
sensation in his thigh. He told his companion that he 
thought he had a spltnter in his leg, recalling a pause made 
nearly an hour earlier at an old pile of rotten raikoad ties. 
His friend was suspicious of the splinter and asked to see 
the place. They fotind the flesh already turning black, and 
the friend at once pronounced it a tarantula bite, though Mr. 
McQueen did not know when he had been bitten. Mr. 
McQueen was at once given whisky, and he says that he 
dranE a pint at a drink, and felt no effect from it whatever, 
the action of the poison being so strong. A doctor was seen 
as soon as possible, and he quartered the wound and applied 
a cupping cap, Mr. McQueen's life was barely saved, and 
lie lay in bed for some weeks. He walks now only with a 
cane, and in his thigh there is a deep hole where the flesh 
sloughed off to the size of his hand, it seeming to be a pe- 
culiarity of the tarantula poison to kill the flesh for a dis- 
tance around the bite. Mr. McQueen was a shooter well 
known at Menominee, and will be welcomed in Chicago 
circles as soon as he gets around all right again from his 
narrow escape with the hairy spider. 
Snipe Season Closing:. 
Our snipe season is drawing to a close, and has been on 
the whole a good one. Mr. W. P. Mussey has probably 
killed about as many snipe as any of our Chicago shooters, 
getting in his trips to Mak^Hw ba about 150 birds. He 
brought back a trifle over 100 last Monday, the result of 
three days' shooting on that famous marsh. 
Oswald von Lengerke made five hunts for snipe and killed 
in all 105 snipe. Charlie Antoine did not do quite so well as 
that, and thought the season a bad one. 
Mr. F. A, Place, of Chicago, and Mr, Hayward, of Crown 
Point, Ind. , retm-ned this week from a little run to the marsh 
above Shelby, Ind, They did not find many birds on the 
Kankakee marshes, but along little inland sloughs picked up 
a couple of dozen. 
George Klehm, at Arlington Heights, near the west edge 
of Chicago, sent in twenty odd snipe tlus week, and prob- 
ably killed them all in one day's hunt near his home at that 
suburb. 
Messrs. C. 8. Dennis and J. V. Clark, of this city, had a 
little hunt below Lowell, Ind., but report only a few snipe. 
They were a little too late. 
Mr. J . B. Wiggins, of this city, has been to the Mak-saw- 
ba Club grounds once or twice, but has not killed many 
jacks. He did not try to do any severely hard hunting, but 
could^not call the luck good. 
Mr.' ,Toel Kinney, on the same grounds, has hunted a few 
days in something of the same manner, and has killed enough 
jacks to say at least that he got enough to eat. 
On the Kankakee marsh above Momence, lU., a large 
pai-ty was in camp for ten days last week and this. These 
were Messrs. W. L. Wells, John Nelliger, Wm. Cutler and 
Phil Woodford, of Chicago, and Messrs. Be Witt Rike, Nate 
Hand, Fred Duree, Chas. Bullinger, Frank Freeman, Mark 
Atherton, Fred Knightheart and Bill Lyons, all of Momence. 
These hunters did not meet any very heavy shooting, pro- 
bably killing less than 1.50 jacks during their stay; but they 
had a mighty good time living in camp and enjoying the 
outdoor features of the country, which included considerable 
rain. High bag for any gun was eleven birds, made by Mr. 
Wells on one day. 
It is likely that the main flight of the jacksnipe has now 
passed on above this latitude. * E Hough. 
1206 BoYCE BuiLDiNS, Chicago. 
ONTARIO'S GAME LAWS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Mr. Bell, of the Forest and Stream Club, of Belleville, 
Out., in his letter in your last issue, is rather severe on the 
legislators of this Province for refusing to restore to the city 
tenderfoot hunters the privilege of killing deer in the water, 
and predicts that the result will be that the aforesaid tender- 
feet will wound numbers of deer on land which will escape 
from them. 
I have hunted in northern Ontario during ten successive 
seasons, and from what I have seen of the operations of the 
city novices I do not agree with Mr. Bell. Still hunting is 
to them, for obvious reasons, out of the question; ihftj are 
able to wcuud precious few deer running ahead of their dogs, 
and the only sport (?) open to them is on the water, where 
they can paddle up alongside of the deer and kill them with 
guns or clubs at their option. 
Since they have no scruples against that kind of butchery 
and it is their only chance for venison, they are naturally 
willing to have the number of deer allowed to be killed by 
each hunter reduced from two, as it is at present, to one. 
It is venison they want, and one deer is better than none. 
They know perfectly well that if hounding were prohibited 
the result would be a great reduction in the number of deer 
killed and wounded, but it does hot suit them to advocate 
that prohibition, What they want is a sure thing for one 
deer each. 
The result of the amendment in the game laws of Ontario 
forbidding the killing of deer in the water, which went into 
effect last season, was a decrease of 50 per cent, in tue total 
number of deer killed, and though there are no returns of the 
number wounded, it may be taken for granted that there was 
no material increase in this. It is hardly necessary to ex- 
plain that in the days of canoe hunting, in parties who went 
in for it, all hands did not take to the canoes. For every 
man who lay in wait on the water it was necessary that sev- 
eral should remam on land to put out the dogs and watch the 
runways, and the latter did not neglect to shoot at any deer 
they saw. The addition, therefore, of the ex-canoemen to 
those who hunted on land last season did not make any 
material difference. 
Our legislators deserve praise rather than condemnation 
for refusing the water privilege to the city tenderfeet; but I 
agree with Mr. Bell in the opinion that the sale of venison 
should be prohibited. The sooner the market hunter, and 
the catcher and seller of game fishes are suppressed, the 
better it will be for sport, but should it be done it will be 
rough on the city tenderfoot about whom Mr. Bell is so anx- 
ious. He cannot buy a deer from a settler and will have no 
chance to exercise his powers of invention on a yarn detail- 
ing the remarkable" circumstances under which he himself 
killed it, and the wonderful shot by which he bagged it. 
Deer hunting will be robbed of a great deal of its romance. 
Wm. Panton. 
Proprietors of fishing resorts will find it profitable to advertise 
them in Forest and Stream. 
BOSTON ANGLERS. 
Boston, May 1. — The ice is out of Lake Auburn, in Maine, 
and the local fishermen are making the best of the early run 
of landlocked salmon. The ice c eared Monday nisrht, and 
early Tuesdiy morning the electric cars, which run from 
Lewiston to the shores of the lake, were crowded with men 
bearing fishing-rods and pails of live bait. Mr. Eiias Har- 
mon caught the first salmon at 3 o'clock P. M It weighed 
BJIbs, City. Clerk McCann of Auburn took a 4lb. salmon on 
Wednesday. R P. Thompson has taken a fine one, hook- 
ing him Thursday forenoon. Other local fishermen have 
had some luck there, but on the whole the fishing is poor, 
though the rush is great. Boats are hard to get, and are re- 
ported to be engaged eight or ten days ahead. One gentle- 
man says that he fished all day Friday and did not catch a 
fish or get a strike. That day there were two small trout 
taken, neither weighing over a pound. His theory is that 
the water is stiU too cold. But B. D. Stevens did take a 
salmon from that lake Thursday weighing 7ilbs. 
SebagoLake, in Maine, opened on Aoril 10. the ice going 
out wiih a high wind. The next day the mercury was down 
about to zero, making it almost impossible to launch a boat, 
and no salmon were taken. By Wednesday the weather had 
moderated, and Mr. John G. Wright, of Boston, with his 
friends, Mr. Souther and C. H. Merrimau, of Providence, 
started for those waters. They were accompanied by Charlie 
Robinson, the South Windham manufacturer and most suc- 
c^ss-ful landlocked salmon fisherman. Fishing several days, 
they fach took several salmon, but none of very great weight. 
Sitis-fied that the weather was too cold, each would like to 
try again a few days hence, and may do so. Lewiston and 
Auburn sportsmen have been well represented at Sebago, as 
well as the fishermen from Portland. H. E. Thurston, of 
Auburn, was one of the first lucky fishermen, landing one 
salmon of 61bs. and another of 12ilbs. E. A Johnson, of 
L°wiston, has taken a salmon at Sebago weighing lOlbs. 
Two Portland sportsmen have taken big salmon each. But 
A. E. Poole, of Portland, has broken the Sebago record, 
landing on the morning of April 26 a salmon weighing 
2lilbs. This is the largest salmon ever reported from that 
lake taken with rod and reel, though bigger fish have been 
taken by the Commissioners, for spawniag purposes, and one 
was found several years ag-^, stranded and dead in one of 
the tributaries of Sebago, that was much larger It was a 
male fish, with the hook of the lower jaw so prominent that 
it would hang over a small stick. Tnere are big salmon in 
Sebago, and the interest in fishing for them is good. Mr, 
.John C Small has caught one this week of 91bs. weight. 
The ice is out of Dan Hole Pond, Ossipee, N. H , and 
some of the fishermen are going. John Caswell, of Boston, 
went to that pond on Friday, to stay till Monday. Doubt- 
less he found the weather very cold. On Friday next R. O. 
Hardrag, E. H, Wakefield. Jr , Elward Brooks and S W. 
Boles, Jr., are to start for Dan Hole after landlocked salmon. 
They have decided to postpone their trip this year till they 
are sure that the smelts are running well. They' expect to 
be joined at the lake by Nathaniel Wentworth and F. L. 
Hughes of the New Hampshire Fish Commission. The ice 
is out of Newfound Lake and a few fishermen have started. 
Sunapee Lake is also clear, but no catches are yet reported 
from either Newfound or Sunapee. One or two big lakers 
have been taken at Winnepiseogee. The ice is very slow 
about going out of the Schoodics. W. L. Underwood, of 
Boston, fully intended to be off for those lakes early this 
week, but getting a dispatch that not even Grand Lake was 
clear, and not likely to clear for several days, he postponed 
his starting till early this week. He is a member of the 
Duck Lake Club, largely composed of Boston merchants, 
and brother of H. O. Underwood, treasurer of the said, club. 
The club party will start on its annual spring fishing trip in 
about a week. Many of its members are anxious to be off. 
Something is being done by the Boston trout fishermen. 
C. D. Bias, one of the most earnest of Boston fishermen, with 
George Talbot and Charlie Olmstead, fished the private 
brook of Mr. Sias,"in Connecticut, on Saturday. The day 
was all that could be asked, and they landed all the trout 
they wanted. Mr, William Cumming and Mr. G. F. Edgett, 
with Robinson and Woodworth, were at a private fishingjpre- 
serve belonging to Mr. Cumming for a couple of days re- 
cently. They secured a great many trout. Mr. Edgett was 
much delighted. Mr. Cumming had been there before. R. 
O. Harding and E H. Wakefield, Jr , were intending to try 
Mr. Wakefield's preserve on the Cape over Sunday of this 
week, but the fierce rainstorm kept them indoors. 
The ice is not yet out of the Rangeleys nor Moosehead. It 
is expected that it must hold in longer, unless the weather 
suddenly changes from the cold_ of the past two weeks to 
very warm. Geo. H Cutting, of Andover, writes me that 
Richardson Lake is not expected to clear before the 15th to 
the 20th. At Bemis, foot of Mooselucmaguntic Lake, there 
was 14in. of snow, fallen the night before, on Monday last, 
April 26. The snowstorm was far the heaviest in the Swift 
River Yalley, there being but lOin. in the White Mountain 
regions. The storm is reported as something unheard of in 
April, and must delay the going out of the ice at the Range- 
leys. O. A, Dennen, of theKineo House, Moosehead, writes 
me, under date of April 30, that the ice wiU be three or four 
days later in that lake this year than last; this date clearing 
it about the 13th. 
Mr. John Caswell, mentioned above, has fished a good 
deal in Florida. From his trip this winter he brings back a 
fly that has something of a record. He took with it 110 sea 
trout in one day at Punta Gorda, and it is pretty good yet. 
It is a silver body, with very small yellow wings. 
Mr. E. Noyes Whitcomb, the builder and president of the 
Inglewood Club, is on a flying trip to Maine, but will doubt- 
less try the fishing wherever there is an opportunity. 
Speciaii. 
New Jersey Coast Fishingf. 
AsBTiRT Pakk, N. J., May 1.— Salt water fish of all kinds 
are moving extraordinarily early this spring, if reports from 
various points along the coast are to be believed. Already 
some plaice have been taken, which is something remarkable, 
as May 15 is as early ~ as they are usually met with, and 
to day a school of biuefish is reported off shore. WhUe 
some earnest eft'orts have been made, no bass have been taken 
in the surf. 
Kingfish and weakfish are moving northward and are 
plentiful in the vicinity of the Chesapeake, and should be 
with us within the next month. Both varieties are frequent- 
ers of our estuaries, and are highly prized by all salt-water 
anglers, and their coming is anxiously awaited each recur- 
ring season. 
Despite the discouragements the fraternity have encoun- 
tered, if signs count, the coming season will be one of nn- 
usual activity, never has tackle heen in better demand, or 
better grades of goods sold. The sand-eels, or sand-lant have 
again put in appearance, a most unusual occurrence, as they 
are strictly a fall and winter fish, and generally leave our 
coast by the middle of winter. It is evident that fish of 
some kind are holding them inshore, presumably the hake 
and cod, as the northern run of hake should occur at' 
this season of the year. Perch are plentiful in all their 
usual haunts imd fly-rods have seen active service the past 
few weeks. Leonakd. 
The Canadian Bass Season. 
Toledo, Onio, May l.—Editar Forest and Stream: A To- 
ledo daily paper contains the announcement that the Cana- 
dian Minister has modifled the close season for black bass so 
as to permit the Pelee Club to angle in Canadian waters for 
the first fifteen days in May. It is stated also in the same 
connection that ex-President Cleveland will be a guest of 
the Club during a part of the season. 
If the information quoted above is not any more reliable 
than that contained m the same article regarding the Cana- 
dian close time during the past two seasons, it will hardly do 
to depend upon. For it is alleged that during this time the 
Canadian authorities had prohibited American anglers from 
fishing in Canadian waters, when in point of fact the Minis- 
ter had extended the close season for bass from May 15, at 
which it formerly ended, 1o June 15. As is well known any 
resident of the United States may fish in Canadian waters 
during the open season by paying the prescribed license of 
$5 per rod for that season, while in case he is domiciled in 
Canada he is subject to no license fee. J. Beebe. 
[ The close season for black bass in Lake Erie immediately 
surrounding Pelee Island was by order in Council of March 
23, 1877, made May 15 to June 15, both inclusive,] 
The Suowfish. 
Pittsburg, Pa. — Editor Forest and Stream: I was, of 
course, delighted to see myself "in print" in the last number 
of Forest akd Stream, but that was nothing to the exhil- 
aration 1 felt at being represented by the compositor and 
proof-reader of your excellent paper as the discoverer of a 
new species of the finny tribe, namely, the "snowfish." I 
had written as plainly as 1 knew how "sunfish," but the 
gentlemen in question between them have immortalized me 
as bringing to the front the heretofore unheard of "snow- 
fish " 1 hope this fish may hereafter be duly recognized, 
and that the Ichtliys eldoneos cliaprnani will appear in its 
proper place in future piscatory literature. T. J. C. 
Ijarere Hudson River Shad. 
PouGHKEEPSiE, N. Y., April 27.— Two years ago, just at 
the close of the shad fishing season, a large roe shad was 
taken in the river near this city, which I saw, and which 
weighed plump lOlbs. Shad are being caught freely now 
weighing from 6 to 7|lb8. in our river, which was a thing 
totally unheard of ten or fifteen years ago, and it shows tho 
benelits we are deriving from stocking and protection. 
J. S. Van Cleep. • 
